2017 Newsmaker: Frances Harder Starts Fashion For Profit
Fashion News
After 18 years of teaching fashion executives how to make money, Frances Harder turned around and took some of her own advice.
2017 Newsmaker: The Wraps Come Off Westfield’s $1 Billion Revamp of Century City
Retail
An Italian food hall that is packed with customers. A slate of unique stores. Furniture that looks like it should be in an interior designer’s living room.
2017 Newsmaker: After Gordon Bros Bid, Wet Seal Reemerges
Retail
After a tumultuous period of proxy fights and bankruptcies, teen retailer The Wet Seal seemed to be about to call it quits.
2017 Newsmaker: Agenda Seeks New Format for Trade Shows
Trade Shows
The fashion business has gone through major changes, but the basic model for fashion trade shows has not budged, said Aaron Levant, founder of the Agenda trade show and senior vice president of trade-show producer Reed Exhibitions.
2017 Newsmaker: Gerber Technology Brings Ideation Conference to LA
Technology
Gerber Technology has been hosting its user conference in various cities around the country since 1998, but this was the first year the Tolland, Conn.–based maker of apparel equipment and software brought the event to California.
2017 Newsmaker: American Apparel Reaches the End of an Era With Sale to Gildan Activewear of Canada
Manufacturing
The American Apparel brand was born in Los Angeles when Dov Charney set out to make a basic T-shirt manufactured in Los Angeles by workers who received a fair wage and benefits.
2017 Newsmaker: A New Clothing Chapter for Dov Charney, American Apparel Founder
Manufacturing
Irreverent Los Angeles clothing manufacturer Dov Charney picked up this year right where he was decades ago.
2017 Newsmaker: DSTLD Commits to Crowd-Funding and Pop-Up Shops
Retail
Los Angeles–based direct-to-consumer label DSTLD is continuing its brand-building efforts by rolling out a series of pop-up shops across Southern California.
2017 Newsmaker: Hitting the Denim Blues, True Religion Reorganizes After Bankruptcy
Manufacturing
Los Angeles premium-denim companies that sold their expensive dungarees to fashionistas for hundreds of dollars were flying high until a few years ago when many companies saw sales slide precipitously.
2017 Newsmaker: Ilse Metchek, California Fashion Association
Manufacturing
Looking for apparel industry statistics? Call Ilse. Business intelligence? Call Ilse. Advice about the impact of upcoming legislation on apparel manufacturing or trends in domestic versus offshore production? Call Ilse.
2017 Newsmaker: Bebe Closes All Its Stores After Selling Half Its Label
Manufacturing
For decades, Bebe Stores struggled as its losses mounted every year. Top executives came and went but still no solution.
2017 Newsmaker: After Decades on the Contemporary Clothing Scene, BCBGMaxAzria Declares Bankruptcy
Manufacturing
When Max Azria established his BCBGMaxAzria brand in 1989, he was immediately off to the races in the world of women’s contemporary clothing.
Artistic Milliners Introduces Sustainable Indigo Dye Process
Textiles
A dirty secret of the denim business is the amount of water, chemicals and energy it takes to get that classic indigo blue. Pakistan denim mill Artistic Milliners hopes to change that with Crystal Clear, a newly introduced process that the company is calling “the cleanest indigo dyeing process.”
Cone, Lenzing and Unifi Partner for Future Black + Denim With Recycled Materials
Black Recycled Denim
Fiber makers Lenzing and Unifi have teamed up with fabric mill Cone Denim to introduce Future Black+, a denim made with Unifi’s recycled Repreve fibers andLenzing Modal.
Patagonia Sues Trump
Patagonia Inc. joined conservation groups to sue the Trump Administration over its decision to reduce the acreage of Bears Ears national monument in Utah.
South Coast Plaza's 50th Anniversary Book
The 50th anniversary celebration of South Coast Plaza continues.
UCLA Economists Predict a Healthy 2018 With Clouds on the Horizon
UCLA economists are optimistic about the U.S. economy in 2018 and then see it cooling in 2019.
Brooks Bros Parties for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Brooks Bros., a clothier to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, produced its annual holiday party Dec. 2 at its Rodeo Drive flagship. Beside holiday fun, the aim of party was to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Gudetama Santa Takes a Bow
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